Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-15
YOUNG CONNECTS.
A VERY YOUTHFUL BATCH ssoUoat
TO RALBIGH.
Working for Immi ration Org lvizltioa
Among the Farmers Reli Sious
Notes.-The Collie yes.
lsnocIaI telegram 70 The pIspatch.l

| iTIctldi Wl'bitlt W NO DiHl'AttuI
RALEIGH, n. c., September 1.-THE
| Asheyille citizens have decided 10 hold
a mass meeting on the oath instant for
the purpose OF petitiOning the county
commissioners of Buncombe to order
an election on the question of sub
| scription Of $l00,0 900 each TO the Caro-
lima Central and Atlanta, Asheville and
Baltimore railways. The iirst-named
road desires to extend It's line SO as TO
make connection with Knoxville, Tenn.
The sale of the Atlantic Hotel at
Norehead City was to-day confirmed
ly the Superior Court.
Sheriff Crowder, of Arson county.
to-day brought seven conyicts to the
peDltentiary. Six of them were under
twenty-one years Of age.
Blanks have been sent ont by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics to all the
railways operating in this State asking
the wages Of employees of all classes.
Tomorrow Arthur Arlington leaves
for New York State with the exhibit
made by lhe Agricultural Department
Of the various products OF the State.
The exhibit will be shown at the fair.
c. {. Pool leaves for Ohio with SIM
lar display, which will be exhibited at
fairs in that State Both displays are
under the auspices Of the State lmmi-
grafton Bureau.
The WCod-pulp mills near Newbome,
owned by >. u. Gray, resumed work
to-day, alter some months rest.
The work Of the removal of the
Coast-Iine Telegraph from Cape Hat
toras to Wilmington began to-day. lt
was purchased by private parties NJ
Government sale. The length of the
wires and cables is 11j miles.
The Board OF Aldermen Of Charlotte
have ordered an election to be held on
the It'll OF November upon the Ques-
ton Of issuing $50, 600 in bonds for the
payment Of the floating debt AMI i'm
proycments Of the sewerage system and
of the sire cts.
The temperature here to-day rose as
high as So.
he Episcopal Convection OF Ba-
leigh met to-day in ST. Matthew'S
church, Hill>boro', with a large at.
tendance of clergy from all this section
of the State. This evening q sermon
on tho missionary work OF the Church
Was preached.
At Gold Hill, Rowan county, Rey. S.
EotLrock, prominent and greatly be
loved Lutheran minister celebrated his
golden wedding. Gifts from near and
TAR were sent as SOUCeHirS OF the happy
occasion.
Colonel l.. l.. Polk, widely known
among the farmers, says that the ex-
tent Of the club movement among them
is far greater than any ono dreams OF.
To-day he received notice OF the or
ganization of the twenty-ninth sub
alliance Of tho Farmers Alliance in
Wake county. Ia this county alone DC
has, he gays, over 400 members.
There are now 1872 studentsat Wake |
HucstCollece, and dailynew ones come
in. President Taylor is greatlypleasci |
mt 50 successful an opening Of the new |
term. There are I02 students at the |
university. Both Trinity AMI David |
son will have a larger attendance this
tom than in years past.
] he new watcr-works at Durham |
we've tested to-day. They have given
the people great deal OF trouble, |
owing to bitches with the contractors, |
failure TO lay mains Of the proper size, |
&c. The disputes have gone on for |
months One test OF the works was Il |
failure.
President +. y. Christian, OF the |
Oxford and Clarksville railway, writes
parties in Durham that if tuat town |
votes the $4,000 subscription to the |
road next Saturday it will be finished
to that point in eighteen months with
out fail. The vote IN favor OF the sab
sciiption viii be overwhelming.
At this term of Granville county Su-
perior Court, now in session at oxford, |
the important case of the State against |
tie negroes who tried to burn that
town will be heard. Judge Shcperi is
holding court. This case Will attract
marked attention.
It is expected that Assistant-Surgeon-
General Hubert Haywood, OF this city,
VIII be promoted to the position of
SurctCn-(loneral, now vacant bvrcason |
of the resignation Of Dr. Eugene Girls
som.
The head Of the Knights of Labor in
this State says he has heard nothing OF
any instructions to iarm-hauds to refuse |
work at less than a certain fixed price,
and that there is no foundation in fact
for the assertion OF negroes iii Wayne
and Wilson counties that they had been |
directed by the Knights to refuse to
pick cotton at the rate offered by the
farmers.